Jack and Jill as it teaches us that people will do anything to save themselves and be brave but red riding hood for example has no real meaning behind it except don’t be too confident
A short story I once read was "A Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is told from first person but the way it's written makes it feel like your reading someone else's twisted diary. But the main character has no name and the only other characters are referred to as "The old man" and "The Three officers" but despite that the way they describe the story from this mad mans point of view you can't help but be drawn in. The writing style was as though the man writing had a point to prove, because at the beginning he was insisting he wasn't crazy. So this story is him writing about the crime he committed to prove in a twisted way that he isn't crazy because in his words " A madman cannot plan." But the message of the story was what really hooked me in. At the end when the three officers are in the house as he is talking to them he hears a noise coming from the floor boards where he hid the body. Turns out what he hears is the mans heart beating louder and louder until he snaps and tells the police that he killed the old man. The best part is that it was only the mad man that heard the beating. I believe the message behind this story is that a guilty conscious is the loudest silence of all.
These are questions that are not answerable with finality in a single lesson or a brief sentence—and that's the point. Their aim is to stimulate thought, to provoke inquiry, and to spark more questions, including thoughtful student questions, not just pat answers. They are provocative and generative.
